Tough on slime, tough on the causes of slime

Blair's deep hostility towards the civil liberties once enshrined in British Common Law emerges clearly in his Telegraph interview:

On criminal justice, we need a big debate about law and order in our developed society. We have a real problem on how to deal with modern criminality.

Dysfunctional families who produce 14-year-old kids stabbing one another to death and organised crime, such as drugs and people trafficking, are making [people's] lives hell.

People are operating outside the law, yet we sit here with the political and legal establishments saying, "That's our system and if you challenge it, you're destroying the rule of law".

Some of the emerging market countries have tried to adopt law and order systems that get ahead of this. In some of those societies, they don't have these levels of criminality. They just don't accept them, and they're not going to accept them, and we need a debate about what we do about it here. It may involve being a great deal tougher.

This from the man responsible for the Human Rights Act (1998) to give "further effect" in Britain to the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights by making it unlawful for any public body to act in a way incompatible with the Convention and permitting legal redress in British courts?

The principal "further effect" being to vastly increase the power of shysters to make public policy and to boost the revenues of Human Rights specialists Matrix Chambers, founder member Cherie Blair QC?